Friday, 27 March 2009

I've been trying some different things recently and these two necklaces are some of the results

I've called this long necklace SUNSET. I made it by filling some silver coloured circles with red tinted resin, but left the centre empty. When the resin was partly cured I added yellow tinted resin to the centre - where the two colours met it created a lovely sunset effect.

This necklace and earrings have hand coiled and hammered spiral of silver. I made the coils from 1.2mm silver plated wire and then hammered them flat which also work hardened the wire to make them rigid.

I've also made lots of new sweetie pendants and beads for Just K Beads and have some more to finish...

Saturday, 14 March 2009

I seem to be neglecting this blog. I've been busy recently working on orders - just posted an order for resin pendants.

I've now got a cupboard store on Mums Making Money - all items reduced for one week from time of listing... click here to visit MMM

I also have a 50% off sale running on Just K Jewellery - selected items only & no gift packaging - see Special Offers

I bought some gorgeous little millefiori glass butterfly beads recently & they've just arrived - I was looking for something else & couldn't resist them. I haven't made them up into any jewellery yet but watch this space...

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ME

A LITTLE BIT ABOUT ME...

I started making jewellery for myself a few years ago and soon became totally addicted. I borrowed books from the library and bought lots too.

I discovered resin after going on a silver clay workshop in 2007. Whilst I loved making the pure silver jewellery it was adding colour that interested me. I tried enamelling and might have pursued that direction if I hadn't discovered you could use coloured resin instead of enamel to achieve the effect I was looking for.

Then I bought a book about resin jewellery and as soon as it arrived I knew this was what I wanted to do. I struggled in the early days as there were virtually no supplies or moulds available in the UK. Everything was trial and error - and there were lots of errors. Luckily today both the resin and moulds are more easy to source in the UK.

Since the early days I have developed my techniques and skills. I'm constantly experimenting - "what will this look like in resin" - or making my own moulds from items I find.